On a spring morning in 1904, a fire onboard a ferry led to the worst disaster in New York City history prior to September 11th.

• Contemporary accounts and recent investigations shed light on the Slocum's fate.
• A comprehensive exploration of an overlooked event in American history.
• Includes the last known interviews with the longest living survivors of the Slocum disaster.

On a beautiful spring morning in June 1904, approximately 1,300 New Yorkers boarded the steamer General Slocum for a daylong excursion to Long Island. Less than an hour later, over 1,000 of them were dead.

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